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COST FILING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17. 1917.

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HAROLIj H. MARTIN, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

COST-FILING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 315, rare.

Application filed; January 17, 1917. Serial No. 142,949.

Tolall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD H. MARTIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cost-Filing Devices, ofwhich the following is a specification. 7

The object of this invention is to provide a novel system or meanswhereby the estimating of freight rates or the like is facilitated, andafford in convenient form other information pertaining to transportationmatters. 7

The invention consists in the novel a1" rangement, adaptation andcombination of series of cards, or their equivalent, which are devotedto data relating to inbound and outbound shipping rates.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which-Figure 1 represents a face View of two superposed cards embodyingcertain features of the invention; Fi 2 is a face view of the underneathcard shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1 of twosuperposed cards to illustrate other features of the invention; Fig. 4is'a face view of the underneath card of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is afragmentaryrear view of one of the cards.v

Tn carrying out my invention, I provide two sets .of cards, respectivelyrelating to inbound and outbound shipments'which, in

turn, are each formed of two subdivisions.

The outbound set comprises a number of cards upon which are markeddestination points such, for example, as-Bellingham, as indicatedbynumeral 10 upon the card denoted by M in Fig. 2, preferably at the upperleft-hand side of the card. To the right thereof and disposed in columns'11, 12 and 13 are series of predetermined numbers arranged inhorizontal rows, as designated by :A, B, C, etc., markedin the column14.

The numbers 15 given in the column 11 are the freight rates per hundredpounds from the point ofshipment, as Seattle, for example,: .to thedestination, and derived from. the so-called tariff .sheets, asindicated by .16 in the example.

Subjacent to this, notation is given the shipping route as GreatNorthern =Ry ,"in=

dicated by 17, and in close association therewith the transferorterminal route, indicated by 18, by which shipments may preferably bedelivered. In column 12 is designated by numbers 19 the relative amountof goods which may be sent express from the shipping point tothedestination to which a particular card relates at the same cost asone hundred pounds by freight. Also in column 13 are numbers 20 whichrepresent the number of pounds which may be sent by parcel post at thesame cost as one hundred pounds of freight.

Cooperating with the above-described, or other similarly arrangeddestination and rate-card, are what I term commodity cards, a selectedone denoted by K being illustrated in Fig. 1, giving thereon the name,as candy, 21 of the commodity appropriated to the card, together withother information" necessary for the shipper to know to obtain the bestrate on the referred to commodity, as the manner of packing, indicatedby 22. The card at its right-hand side is notched or slotted to afford ahorizontally disposed aperture 23, through which can be seen the freightrate and the equivalent amounts in weight for express and parcel postshipments upon the destination card when the latter is The numbers inrow B of Fig. 2, which" give freight rates, etc, on the class of goods"to which the selected commodity card pertains, is discerned through theaperture-23 when the cards are placed one on the other, as shown inFig. 1. For convenience, the card K is marked in spaced relations to correspond with columns 11, 12 and 13,- index characters 11 12 and 13representing weights (cwt. and lbs.) and characters 11 12 and 13(Freight, Express and P. Post) representing mode of conveyance.

The manner of using the invention so far described may be explained asfollows:

The shipper or consignor places the proper commodity card K, as forcandy, over a' destination-cardM, as in Fig.

row B of "the destination card M. These numbers will show with referencetothe 1,- and' throiigh the aperture23 of'the upper card is dis closedall of the numbers provided-injthe will be twenty-five cents per hundredpounds and that quantities of candy not exceeding thirteen pounds may besent by express'or twenty-one pounds by parcel post at a cost oftwenty-five cents or less.

By such devices it is apparent that the shipper may not only readilydetermine the freight rate, but can tell at a glance whether it is themost economical way of forwarding the goods.

The invention also includes devices arranged to facilitate estimatingcost of inbound freight, etc., wherein cards are utilized somewhatsimilar to that employed for obtaining outbound rates, but in reversedorder.

Referring now to Figs. 3 and 4, M represents an inbound shipping pointcard and K a commodity card for use therewith, the particular cardsbeing used merely as samples. With inbound traffic, the commodity card Khas marked thereon, as at 521 the name or class of article, as Acid, andin association therewith information, as at 22 regarding packing, etc.In these respects it is or may be, similar to the markings on the aoredescribed outbound commodity cards. With inbound rate cards, however,tariff rates are marked on the commodity cards, as indicated by numerals15 1.5 15 etc. in column 11 and 19 19 19 etc. in column 12 of the samplecard, and consecutively in rows A, B, C, etc. of the referred to cardaccording to the rate as determined by the railway tariff for differentzones in relation to the destination, as Seattle, for example.

7 Referring to Fig. 3, a shipping-point card M is provided, besides itsdesignating name 10 with notations, as the tariff source, indicated by16 and route indicated by 17 A shipping-point card is, moreover,provided with an aperture 23 in a row as D,which will coincide to theposition of the freight rates, as 3.40 and 2.45, corresponding totarifi' rates from the point of shipment, Chicago, Ill. in the example,to the destination.

- The aperture 23 also discloses the express rate, as 52 in the example,and designates the maximum number of pounds of goods which may be sentby express at'a cost equal to that charged for one hundred pounds byfreight. V

7 On a shipping-point card is shown in columns 11 12 and 13respectively, abbrevitions LCL (less than carload lots), CL (carload)and Lbs. (pounds), the latter being qualified by the word express placedin proximity thereto. To employ the inbound cards, the proper commodityone,'as in'Fig. 4, is placed below the shipping point one, asrepresented in Fig. 3.

The rates given on a commodity card, Fig. 4, pertaining to inboundtraffic, are arranged in rows A, B, C, etc., according to the zone di tee fr m t e t nation, t w

for example, specifying rates from Atlantic seaboard places, B frompoints farther west, and so on, the apertures in the shipping pointcards being disposed to register with the proper row in the commoditycards.

The commodity cards for the outbound set and the shipping-point cards ofthe inbound set are each reinforced by a sheet 30 of celluloid or othertransparent material attached to the back of the respective card, asindicated in Fig. 5. V

The invention will, it is thought, be understood from the foregoingdescription. Its advantages reside principally in the pro-- visionofmeans which enable a shipper or consignee to determine or check freightrates without the necessity of keeping up and consulting a cumbersomeand complicatedset of tariffs which require the service of a specialist.A further advantage resides in the association with the tabulatedfreight rates, of data exhibiting the relative costs to ship articles byexpress or parcel post.

What I claim, is-- 1. In devices of the class described, the combinationwith a series of cards having thereon the names of destinations andclassified freight rates, of a series of cards having marked thereon thenames of commodities, said last named cards being each pro-. vided withan opening which is arranged to disclose therethrough the freight ratefor the particular class of goods designated upon a selected one of thefirst named cardscwhen one of the second named cards is placed over thelatter.

2. In devices of the class described, sets of cards devoted to outgoingfreight, comprising a plurality of cards with destination points andtariffs marked thereon, and a plurality of cards withthe names ofcommodities marked thereon in combination with sets of cards devoted toincoming freight comprising a plurality of cards with the names ofcommodities andtariifs marked thereon, and a plurality of cards havingdesprovided with commodity names of the out going freight and the cardsprovidedwith destination point ofthe incoming freight being eachprovided with an opening th ough which may be disclosed the respectivetariff rates of the supplementary cards of the respective outgoing andincoming cards.

3. In devices of the class described, the combination with. a cardhaving marked thereon the name of a commodity, a column of numbersgiving freight rates on such commodity, and a column of numbers givingthe weights of such commodity which may be sent by express at theaforesaid freight rates, of a card devotedto a predetermined destinationand having an opening therein through which the freight rate on thecommodity which may be sent by express may provided with an openingthrough which sebe observed on the first named card when lected of saidnumbers may he observed coplaced below the second named card. incidentlywith a rate from the freight tarifi. 4. In a device of the classdescribed, the Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 12th 5 combination ofa freight tarifi' sheet with seday of January, 1917.

ries of numbers devoted to express and parcel post shipments, saidnumbers designating OLD MARTIN the Weights of goods which may be sent byWitnesses: the respective shipments at the same rates PIERRE BARNES,

10 as one hundred pounds of freight, of a sheet E. PETERSON.

Homes eff this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Gommissioner of Patentu, Washington, D. G.

